Michael Wilkins
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Aerial of a rectangular ocean pool cut into the rock platform, with heavy white surf breaking against its seaward wall and swimmers in the water beyond.

The Baths From the Air

Bronte Baths, Sydney · October 2016

DJI Zenmuse X5, 15 millimetres, f 2, 1/480 of a second, ISO 135

A straight line, negotiating with the sea.

The ocean pools are the thing I keep coming back to here: someone drew a rectangle on a rock shelf and the sea has been arguing with it ever since. From above the argument is obvious — a hard straight edge on one side, chaos on the other, and people swimming laps in the middle of it.

Part of The Sydney Coast, a series.